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I'm Andy Walker from Edmond, OK, and I have been a Tiger owner since 1979.
Prior to that, however, I was a major-league HO slot car enthusiast, being
introduced to that hobby in 1967 when I received my first Aurora HO scale
racing set for Christmas at the age of 7. Up until the time when I got my
driver's license and got into real cars, I had amassed more track and more
slot cars than I knew what to do with, and I still have all of that stuff to
this day.
In mid-February '03, I was perusing the "Sunbeam Tiger" page on eBay when I
saw an auction for a resin-bodied Sunbeam Tiger HO scale "T-Jet"
("Thunderjet" Aurora slot car, for those not indoctrinated in such
things...) slot car. True enough, it did not sport the side trim or badges
but, hey, it's in HO scale and small items like that are very hard to
replicate. Overall, however, it looked very faithful to the marque. I
contacted the seller/manufacturer of the car to see if he could custom-build
a replica of my car in Forest Green. I also inquired about replicating the
LAT 58 tail stripes in hopes that could do those as well. He returned my
E-mail immediately and asked me to send him a couple of pics of my Tiger,
which I promptly did.
